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FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE
Vinyl's Revenge #19 (26 July 2016)
Project 366 Listener Guide #56
“Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty Suites”
In 1882 Tchaikovsky considered creating a suite from the music to Swan Lake, but it was only seven years after his death that such a suite was finally published as "op. 20a", and it is unknown who made the selection of numbers. Tchaikovsky first considered the idea of creating a concert suite from The Sleeping Beauty in February 1890, shortly after the ballet's première. In the event he was unable to settle on a selection of numbers, and in 1899 a suite of five numbers from the ballet compiled by an unknown person was published as "Op. 66a".
Pyotr Ilich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Swan Lake (Лебединое озеро), Suite, op. 20a (TH 219)
The Sleeping Beauty (Спящая красавица), Suite, op. 66a (TH 234)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert Von Karajan, conducting
Deutsche Grammophon – 2530 195
(Vinyl, AAA)
Studio, 1972
